Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,702, Christopher Fry, New York

SERVICE
New York
Fry, Christopher
NUMBER
S. 10.702
CONTENTS
carded

New York  Christopher Stry
Order to pay 2h. Sept 1837
of Dutchess Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain M c off of the Regt. commanded by Col. D u lers - on the New York line for 9 m.
20147
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Aug and due to H t Doh ty . Heirs and Heirs
Arrears to the 4th of M c 11 $ 60 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 99 15 $ 75
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. H. Clerk, Book 6. Vol. 3. Page 56

State of New York
Sulchip County ss: On this twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sulchip now sitting Christopher Tracy a resident of the Town of Iron in the County of Sulchip and State of New York aged xx  twenty years who being duly first sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following names Effcus and served as herein stated and he was born in the City of Albany in the State of New York on the 14 th day of December 1762. That he has not any record of his age but there is true to the best of his sister who then lived in Madison County that he was living in the town of Midhirst in the County of Ulster when he was called into service and has lived in the town of Esopus in the County of Ulster since the Revolutionary war and wider than now. That in March  the  Spring of the year 1777 he entered in the service of the United States in a company under the command of Captain Henry  Myhring , Ulster  Light  Infantry for five  months . That he joined the said company at Hudson and marched down the River to Fort Constitution with the company where we joined Colonel Debois Regiment as he  left . That he remained there from the first  last of April 1777 until after Fort Montgomery was taken. That he was a volunteer in said company that after the said Fort Montgomery was taken this defendant marched with his company to Red Bank

 before the General Court was then a member of the who for Clinton took command Continental Army from New York to Philadelphia, from there to Kingston and arrived there about twenty days after it had been burnt by the enemy that while he was at Kingston or Esopus as it was called he was a spy recruited by the order of General Clinton that from Kingston he returned to Newburgh and there remained until his term of enlistment expired when he received a discharge from Captain Tychoff but does not know or remember where it was written or verbal given in the Army where he served Gen Salomon General Clinton Col. Dubois that he is known in his present neighborhood to Elazer M. Swift Eliza Hoag, Leonard Hoag, Blackman Hoag Stephen Hoag, Mott Hoag & William Hoag who can testify to his loyalty and to their belief as to his status as a soldier of the Revolution that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can produce who can testify to his service except that of Lieutenant Laurens Hoag & Abraham Vanblach when affidavits are herewith annexed.
He hereby acknowledges every claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of New York State for the War of 1812-14 the day & year aforesaid Christopher Hoag Henry Laurens
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N o 12489 Christopher Fry
cond
14 th Ob. April 24 th 1833
P. 350
John L. DeLoach Beetmansville N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of  Christopher Fry  Grandly of Dubuque  in the State of  Ill.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.      In 1799, Illin. until after Fort Meigs where he was taken Prisoner states the time to be of 200.  — 9 — As a Gen. Col. Dubois, Capt. Mycuff  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Fishkill  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

Rehran
10,702
INVALID.
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File No. 10,702
Christopher Fry
Rev. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In the matter of Christopher Fry, Revolution applied.
12.489
Amended
Direct answer to John & Henry Park in an bill of discovery. 60. D.L.O.S.
abund
9 mo. per
30 $

State of New York
Subscribed County of Ulsterham born black of the town of Esopus being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Christopher Fry who has made the above declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832. that he became acquainted with the said Fry in the spring of the year 1817 at Fort Clinton  Clinton in company with Captain Mykoff and Lieut. Mykoff He stated that he knows that said Fry continued in said company doing the duties of a soldier until Fort Montgomery was taken, that he knew that the said Fry marched with General  General  General under Captain Mykoff to Esopus and that he returned to Poughkeepsie he has no doubt that he served nine months as he states that his regiment was a soldier in the said company under Captain Mykoff and served with the said Fry during the time before said
Sworn to me this 25 th day of September 1832 before me Jos. Jackson a County Judge for Dutchess County in the State of New York
Abraham Van Ma
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We Moses Bull a Clergyman residing in the town of Poughkeepsie Dutchess County formerly of Esopus in said County and Eleazar H. Swift and Elisha H. Day of the town of Esopus in said County of Dutchess hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Christopher Fry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age

that he is respected and believed in the Neighborhood where he renders to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion -
Witness my hand in New York Sept 23 d 1832
Henry Brainerd
Abner Phelps
Eliza Hovey
J. N. Smith
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the disengagement of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named appli- cant is was a Revolutionary Soldier and lived as he states and the Court further believes that it appears to them that Abner Phelps who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Resident of the Town of Poughkeepsie and that Eliza Hovey & Eliza Hovey of the Town of Poughkeepsie who have also signed the same are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit.
State of New York
Dutchess County ss I Henry Brainerd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Christopher Fry for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office the twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred thirty two.
Henry Brainerd Clerk
In the Matter of Christopher Fry's Pension Application 12.480

The Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dutchess do hereby in amendment of the proceedings in the matter of the pension application of Christopher Fry certify and declare that it has is a fact only appears to them that James Sleight & Abraham Van Blad who have each respectively signed the affidavits contained in the foregoing original proceedings are residents of the Town of De Graafse in the County of Dutchess State of New York and that the character of both said wharfs for truth & veracity are good & their state - merits entitled to full credit -
State of New York
Dutchess County ss. I Henry J. Turner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Dutchess hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Additional proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Christopher Fry for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Henry J. Turner Clerk
app? By the court J.C.R.

State of New York Dutchess County ss-
Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said Dutchess County, James Knight who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a Lieutenant in the Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Henry Wykoff and served in the revolutionary war one season a term of seven or eight months is uncertain as to the exact time, that he is now more than eighty years of age and in consequence of infirmity is unable to go abroad and has not rode out in several years. The deponent further says that in the time of the revolutionary war he was stationed at Fort Constitution on the Hudson near West Point, does not recollect the the name of the Colonel. That soon after the capture of Fort Montgomery he marched to Fishkill where he remained a short time went from there to Newburgh from there to Poughkeepsie at the time that Village was burnt by the British, when, hearing of the capture of Burgoyne's army they returned. This deponent further says that he is well acquainted with Christopher Faye and that he the said Faye served with him in the same company as a private during the term above mentioned and all the time of the service of the deponent as he verily believes
Sworn and subscribed before me the 30th day of August 1832
James Knight James DeWitt Justice of the Peace

State of New York Dutchess County
James Delong of the Town of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that this is an affidavit for the keeping of the peace in the Town of Poughkeepsie aforesaid in the County aforesaid and that at the request of Christopher Fox within namely the time of the said Fox on the 21st day of August last at the house of the weather named James Sleight for the purpose of taking the within affidavit and that the said James Sleight is a very aged and infirm man as this Deponent well believes unable to attend to or transact any business except at his own house.
James Delong the 21st day of September
1832 Poughkeepsie
Henry James Clark
State of New York
Dutchess County ss I Henry J. Frank Clerk of said County do hereby certify that James Delong Esq before whom the above affidavit was taken and who has subscribed the above affidavit is a Justice of the Peace in said County and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and believe here that the signature annexed to the within affidavit is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and used my seal of Office the County of Dutchess fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two as aforesaid
Henry James Clark
James Delong

Muhlenberg Bank New York 23 d September 1837
Sir
I enclose for your examination the papers in the case of Christopher Fry a Private at $30 pr annum under the act of 7 th June 1832, who claims his pension from the 12 th of September 1836,
Very Respectfully
Yours, Oth Servt
J. Lovilland Jr
James L Edward, Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington